The War on Science

What It Covers

The Trump administration has frozen research funding, fired thousands of federal scientists, scrubbed health websites, and banned terms like "gender" and "women" from CDC publications within three weeks of taking office.

Key Questions Answered

• •Federal Website Censorship: Thousands of government health pages on monkeypox prevention, HIV care, and LGBTQ health were removed or tagged with disclaimers rejecting gender ideology, eliminating critical public health data used to stop disease outbreaks.
• •Research Funding Paralysis: NIH grant approval meetings cannot proceed because federal register notices are blocked, preventing new drug research funding despite court orders to resume payments. Every FDA-approved drug from 2010-2019 involved NIH-funded research at some stage.
• •Banned Scientific Terms: NSF staff review tens of thousands of grants to flag words including women, female, black, Latinx, bias, and trauma. Researchers studying endometriosis and women's health face funding removal despite no connection to gender ideology debates.
• •USAID Dismantling: Clinical trial participants worldwide were abandoned mid-treatment on experimental drugs when USAID funding stopped. The President's Malaria Initiative and PEPFAR HIV prevention programs, started by George W Bush, face complete elimination rather than reform.